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Dolly Parton photo

“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

Variante: The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

Albert Einstein citation: “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
Albert Einstein photo
Amos Oz photo
Pablo Neruda photo

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Variante: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Vladimir Lenin photo
Pablo Neruda photo
Theodore Roosevelt photo

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Éduquer une personne dans l'esprit mais pas dans la morale, c'est éduquer une menace pour la société.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Bob Marley photo

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
Mieux vaut mourir en combattant pour la liberté que d'être prisonnier tous les jours de votre vie.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Vincent Van Gogh photo
Ernest Hemingway photo

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”

Ernest Hemingway livre Men Without Women

Disputed
Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

George Orwell photo

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

George Orwell livre Politics and the English Language

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Contexte: Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Albert Einstein photo

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
Il n'y a que deux manières de vivre ta vie. La première est de vivre comme si rien n'était un miracle. La seconde, comme si tout l'était.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

As quoted in Journal of France and Germany (1942–1944) by Gilbert Fowler White, in excerpt published in Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White (2006) by Robert E. Hinshaw, p. 62. From the context http://books.google.com/books?id=_2qfZRp9SeEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false it seems that White did not specify whether he had heard Einstein himself say this or whether he was repeating a quote that had been passed along by someone else, so without a primary source the validity of this quote should be considered questionable.
Some have argued that elsewhere Einstein defined a "miracle" as a type of event he did not believe was possible—Einstein on Religion by Max Jammer (1999) quotes on p. 89 from a 1931 conversation Einstein had with David Reichinstein, where Reichinstein brought up philosopher Arthur Liebert's argument that the indeterminism of quantum mechanics might allow for the possibility of miracles, and Einstein replied that Liebert's argument dealt "with a domain in which lawful rationality [determinism] does not exist. A 'miracle,' however, is an exception from lawfulness; hence, there where lawfulness does not exist, also its exception, i.e., a miracle, cannot exist." ("Dort, wo eine Gesetzmässigkeit nicht vorhanden ist, kann auch ihre Ausnahme, d.h. ein Wunder, nicht existieren." D. Reichenstein, Die Religion der Gebildeten (1941), p. 21). However, it is clear from the context that Einstein was stating only that miracles cannot exist in a domain (quantum mechanics) where lawful rationality does not exist. He did not claim that miracles could never exist in any domain. Indeed, Einstein clearly believed, as seen in many quotations above, that the universe was comprehensible and rational, but he also described this characteristic of the universe as a "miracle". In another example, he is quoted as claiming belief in a God, "Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world."
As quoted in From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter (1993) by David T. Dellinger, p. 418
Disputed
Variante: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Variante: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Shams-i Tabrizi photo
Charlie Chaplin photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.
1900s
Variante: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Oscar Wilde photo

“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ozzy Osbourne photo
Emile Zola citation: “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Emile Zola photo

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Emile Zola livre Au Bonheur des Dames

Source: The Ladies' Paradise

Freddie Mercury photo

“We believe in each other, that's enough for me.”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

On Mary Austin, a long time companion, and the inheritor of most of his estate, as quoted in "For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen" by Fred Hauptfuhrer, in People magazine (5 December 1977) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Group_-_12-05-1977_-_People
Contexte: All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo
Sadhguru photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Oprah Winfrey photo

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Variante: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Henry Ford citation: “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Henry Ford photo

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Variante: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Tim Burton photo
Edgar Allan Poe photo

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.

Abraham Lincoln photo
Jane Austen citation: “When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
Jane Austen photo

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Martin Luther King, Jr. citation: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variante: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Neale Donald Walsch photo

“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Variante: The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

C.G. Jung photo

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
John Lennon photo

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
Tout finira bien. Si ça ne va pas bien, c'est que ce n'est pas la fin.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Also found with the alternative spelling: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end
Found anonymously on Usenet in 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.support.divorce/gKiyfcAYreo/jjuc6KTu_NAJ. First known attribution to Lennon is from 2011 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=stow-ma-apple-barn/45MNk9KiGsY/vaq6pr8hgI0J.
Disputed
Variante: Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

Bob Marley photo
Ernesto Che Guevara photo

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36

Francis of Assisi photo
Jack Kerouac photo

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Sometimes credited to Jack Kerouac, from his book The Dharma Bums. It is not a quote by Kerouac. It first appeared as a very brief description of The Dharma Bums in Esquire's list of "The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read" in 2010: http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g96/80-books/?slide=71. It was later copied by Kilburn Hall in his list of 30 "Books and Authors Every Man Should Read" which he first posted online in 2012: https://kilburnhall.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-books-and-authors-every-man-should-read/
Misattributed

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Variante: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Aristotle photo

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle livre Métaphysique

Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above.
Disputed
Source: Metaphysics

Tennessee Williams photo

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

John F. Kennedy photo

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

As quoted in Mayor (1984) by Ed Koch
Attributed

Bill Gates photo

“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Contexte: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Audre Lorde photo

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Audre Lorde livre The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.

Carl R. Rogers photo
Ronald Reagan photo

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Corrie ten Boom photo
John Lennon photo
Woodrow Wilson photo

“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

As quoted in The Wilson Era; Years of War and After, 1917–1923 (1946) by Josephus Daniels, p. 624. Referenced in "Bartleby.com" http://www.bartleby.com/73/1288.html
1920s and later

Bill Gates photo
John Lennon photo
Jackson Pollock photo

“Love is friendship set to music.”
L'amour, c'est l'amitié au son de la musique.

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) American artist
Frederick Douglass citation: “It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass photo

“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Variante: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Stephen Chbosky photo

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Nous acceptons l'amour que nous pensons mériter.

Stephen Chbosky livre Pas raccord

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Tupac Shakur photo

“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
Je ne dis pas que je vais changer le monde, mais je vous garantis que je vais mettre l'étincelle au cerveau qui changera le monde.

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

Seneca the Younger photo

“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.

Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
Tragedies

Aurelius Augustinus photo

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

De Patientia http://www.augustinus.it/latino/pazienza/index.htm chapter 5

Maryam Mirzakhani photo

“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Iranian mathematician

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-winner-mathematician

Epictetus photo

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses

Steve Jobs photo

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

2005-09, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Contexte: Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin photo

“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Contexte: The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit.

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. ”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Malala Yousafzai photo
Keanu Reeves photo
Keanu Reeves photo
Laozi photo

“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
T.S. Eliot photo

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)

Mark Twain photo

“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Si vous dites la vérité, vous n'avez à vous souvenir de rien.

Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variante: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

William Shakespeare photo
Paramahansa Yogananda photo